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July 31, 2006

I'm going on holiday. But I dont like blogging about it when it happens. People really don't care. Especially when it's only for a few days.

But this is an excuse to excuse me from a few things:

I'm going to be getting some spam... my filter's been catching a lot of spam recently ("archy it i, and i like you," they say!?!) from some rinkydink casino from Bulgaria or something, and now I'm away it's going to get worse. So sorry to those people who subscribe to my comments. You're going to kop some shite on here I'm afraid :-(

July 30, 2006

Inspired by Stuart's performance at a recent conference, a PR person has started blogging at a blog called Adpoted Northener. Maybe she's a goth too? (it's purple and black :-) Thanks Simon for the link.

Mrs Drew B just saw this photo on Ebay. Oh my god how annoyed would you be if you were loitering in your dressing gown, with no undercrackers on, and your other half takes a shot of their shitty bike for Ebay... then goes and uses the photo anyway!

Here's a screen grab:

And you gotta love the shouty no-breath description of the bike... pure pikey quality:

MOUNTAIN BIKE NEEDS TO GO SOME ATTENTION REQUIRED BUT WILL MAKE A NICE
LITTTLE BIKE YOU ARE BIDING ON FULL COMPLETE BIKE FULL SUSPENSION
ADJUSTABLE REAR GOOD BIKE BUT MOTOERBIKE NEEDS THE ROOM ASK ANY
QUESTIONS NOTHING TO HIDE PICK UP ONLY PLEASE MAY BE ALBE TO DELIVER
BUT WOULD NEED YOUR ADDRESS TO GET PRICE HAPPY BIDDING

An Aussie blogger has uncovered that one of the country's TV channels was posting fake threads on its chat rooms about drug scandals. It's big, apparently. Through this blog bust, heads may doubt roll.

An Aussie blogger has picked up the dodgy Aussie current affairs show Today Tonight creating a fake story about Australian Big Brother. Today Tonight claimed that the folk at Australian Big Brother were
trying to cover up a ‘drugs scandal’ - even deleting posts from the
official Big Brother forum! Problem was… the forum posts in question
were not only from an unofficial forum… they were also started by a
Today Tonight producer.

July 25, 2006

Joseph Dobbie is the latest eager emailer to be the subject of global humiliation in the media because of a mail that fell into the wrong hands. If you don't know about the story, check the BBC, Times, Guardian or Mirror. It's an example of how, and who, not to chat up when you're only a few emails away from the media. Here's the email he sent in full, which I received today.

The issue of blogging in crisis PR scenarios is quite a mature one. It's always cropping up in online conversations. But because crises so rarely come along (well, for most brands anyway) the reality is that crisis comms rarely incorporate well-rehearsed social media technologies. Unless, of course, the crisis is caused by blogging, which will then get all the PR bloggerati in a client's PR agency chomping at the bit.

Reacting to a crisis that has arisen on the blogosphere requires all the sound blogging tactics, with a few added extras. But the broader issue of reacting to real life crises using blog technologies is more complex. A good understanding of how this medium works is crucial, but you need to have done it all in a business context before also. My advice would be to know your technologies inside out first, look at he problem faced like you would any business problem, then think social and go for the long tail.

If you're in need of a catch-up, here's five resources to help you on blogging through a crisis:

Remember when Kazaa was bigger than Skype? (ie when Skype didn't exist yet) I thought that P2P phones would never take off. How wrong was I. Well Rumour has it, according to Business 2.0's blog, that the founders of Skype are moving intp P2P TV. It's going by codename Venice. Take a look at the blog buzz going up in the last few days on this chart:

As the world's gaze has turned to another ethnic and religious calamity - this time between Israel and militants in Lebanon - a question that almost immediately arises is just what Zlata Filipovic, or even Anne Frank, might have made of YouTube.com.